Cesare Robotti is a financial economist with the financial group of the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Dr. Robotti concentrates his research on empirical asset pricing and portfolio management.

Before joining the Bank in 2001, Dr. Robotti was a teaching fellow at Boston College and an adjunct faculty member at Brandeis University. He has also worked in the dealing room of Novara International Bank in Luxembourg and as a financial analyst at Cariplo Bank in Milan, Italy. He has published works in the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of Empirical Finance and has presented papers and served as a discussant at a number of professional conferences.

He received a bachelor's degree in economic and social sciences and a master's of science in economics from L. Bocconi University of Milan. He earned a master's degree and his doctorate in economics from Boston College.

"The Exact Distribution of the Hansen-Jagannathan Bound" (with Raymond Kan). Review of Financial Studies 2008. (Earned WRDS award for best empirical paper at the 2008 Meeting of the Northern Finance Association.)

EFA, 28th Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association, Berlin, 22–24 August 2002. Paper presented: "The Price of Inflation and Foreign Exchange Risk in International Equity Markets." Discussant of the paper: "Lazy Entrepreneurs or Dominant Banks? An Empirical Analysis of the Market for SME Loans in TH UK," by Otto Toivanen and Robert Cressy.

EFA, 28th Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association, Berlin, 22–24 August 2002. Paper presented: "The Price of Inflation and Foreign Exchange Risk in International Equity Markets." Discussant of the paper: "Lazy Entrepreneurs or Dominant Banks? An Empirical Analysis of the Market for SME Loans in TH UK," by Otto Toivanen and Robert Cressy.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York (July 2008)Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (July 2008)Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (May 2008)National University of Ireland, Maynooth (October 2006)Concordia University (May 2006)University of Minnesota (September 2005)Concordia University (April 2005)York University (November 2004)University of Arizona (October 2003)University of Michigan (April 2003)George Washington University (April 2003)Georgia State University (April 2003)Boston College (March 2003)University of Virginia (2003)University of California, Irvine (2001)University of Toronto (2001)Stockholm School of Economics (2001)Norwegian School of Management (2001)Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2001)L. Bocconi University (2001)Nanyang Technological University (2001)University of New Hampshire (2001)AlphaSimplex Investment Technology Group (2001)Clark University (2001)Mellon Capital Management (2001)

Adjunct faculty member, Brandeis University Graduate School of International Economics and Finance. Course taught: Investments

September, 1998–May, 2001

Teaching fellow, Boston College Department of Economics of the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management, College of Advancing Studies. Instruction in principles of macroeconomics; statistics for business and economics; money and capital markets; and monetary theory and policy.